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Anon degoogles his Samsung (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Every DRM related app afterwards: WARNING! This phone is running insecure software and is incompatible with this service.

And before you tell me just to not use Netflix on my phone, I'm talking about a government app that lets me authenticate and without which I can't read official messages or login to any government or banking service.

So if I want to survive as an adult Dane, I pretty much have to figure out which company I would like to get sodomized by, and which is less of a clingy little bitch afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Oooooor have a secondary cheap absolute trash phone that is ONLY for those shitty government auth tools. Not ideal but gives you some control again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What trash-ass country requires you to maintain a proprietary operating system and device to access government services?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They referred to themselves as a Dane, which is somebody who lives in Denmark. So the country in question is likely Denmark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Oh. That makes sense. My brain must have passed it over thinking it was a typo (of course they're not a dog of a specific breed)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] Sorry I can't figure out how to reply in thread, made an account just to tell you you can get a nøglebrik/kodeviser for MitId. It's a fully offline TOTP thing that you can use instead of the app. I never even installed the app :)

[–] [email protected] 107 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does all that and still used WhatsApp lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

jumping on rake meme

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (7 children)

use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My panties just dropped

Edit: I’m not a girl, just a rust dev

[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Edit: I’m not a girl, just a rust dev

then you likely need to wash them now, like right now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

They already shattered when they dropped.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 4 days ago (1 children)

install Pokémon Go

allow all permissions

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Install pokemon go

Spoof location

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I hate phones so much.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love phones, just hate the companies running it.

Same with most tech, the tech isn't evil, its just how its being used, and who's steering its future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Thanks to the companies you cannot love the phones without accepting the company's every whim. So I don't love phones.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I wish we just had dumb phones and went back to Palm Pilots. But there's so much stuff that makes a phone mandatory nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The current state of phones is WILD. Two bad options yet most everyone (including me) still use them. I actually like to use it as evidence that most people would be fine if plopped in front of Ubuntu or Debian+Gnome/KDE

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's why my current phone is a Pixel running GrapheneOS. I still hate Android, but at least I don't have to run Play services on my main profile. I do run it on a separate profile though for a couple services that need it.

I really just want Linux with decent support for phone features (MMS/calls/data on any carrier, with full wake from sleep reliability), decent battery life, and decent audio quality. Unfortunately, PinePhone doesn't seem to handle those things properly (maybe it does MMS now?), so I stick w/ my GrapheneOS phone, which at least cuts out most of the crap from Android.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

... and then hope that you don't get hardware issue warranty claim denied because of the software.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

And then anon still walks around with a beacon in their pocket

[–] tengkuizdihar 18 points 4 days ago

very based.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

It's honestly such a pain in the ass to say no to everything Google shoves down your throat these days. And even after you say no it will remind you every so many days just in case you changed your mind after the 15th time you said no. Android used to be the "cool" phone but nowadays if you don't install your own custom ROM it's basically just Apple with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

The number of services that have adopted dark patterns is too much.

It's no longer "No" with a checkmark that says "Don't ask me again" to only "Not now" with the implied consent that they can ask you again later.

Dropbox asks me every fucking time I use the browser.

NewRelic asks me every fucking day.

Amazon asks me every fucking order.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'd love to degoogle and debullshit my phone but then I need the back app... I'd like to tap with my phone to pay, and that won't be allowed because we can have nice things.

I'd like to use a host of other apps I won't be able to use anymore...

Any solution that allows me to just use a nice phone with all the features?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

put your credit card in the back of the case hah

best bet is get a phone with default android and delete default apps with ADB

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did this when I was in Japan. I didn't want to jump through all their ridiculous hoops to get tap to pay to work, so I just threw my NFC debit card into my case and called it a day. Worked 90% of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Why not just get a google-less ROM at that point?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Fake: Anon can do any of this

Gay: Bought a samsung phone

P.S the kids have been raving about this phone just reduces all those steps to "buy phone".